title: Portrait of a leader in immunotherapeutics.
abstract: It's the question that every grade school kid has to answer at some point or another--"What do you want to be when you grow up?" My mom still has the second grade paper on which I first wrote down that I wanted to be a "physician scientist." I'm quite certain that I probably didn't know exactly what a physician scientist was at the time. I certainly didn't know any physician scientists personally, nor was I exposed to academic environments in the tiny Minnesota town in which I grew up. All I'm certain of, was at that time, I liked reading about science. Unfortunately, I soon came to know the medical profession all too personally.
authors.affiliation: Biothera, the Immune Health Company.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grossman
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007155:Immunologic Factors / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007167:Immunotherapy / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products; D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D007155:Immunologic Factors